Lovely pics, thanks kk

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Pics from tonight CF the Lake District - Basil (spelling?) the lovely pony did a good job with Matt. Pete's a brave soul...his dog Boot is lovely...
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Matt on 3 CF episodes on yesterday channel this afternoon. Another Mattfull day!

Evening all

A good cf, matt riding basil and having a paddle, all wrapped up and in a lovely orange beanie.
The guy that went swimming in the lake is nuts doing it in a cold january.

The bull that adam went to see was huge. A £100k for it

Hellaw

Thanks for all the latest picspams KK, all completely wonderful!

This is lovely from the first One Show of the year:

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There's a beautiful one that I saw from the last couple of picspams but I'll have to revisit them (shame ) to find it again.

Yes, SkyBlue, Matt was indeed covered up in many layers on tonight's CF. As he said, the water was 'Baltic', his feet must have been absolutely frozen No wonder he didn't offer to swim. The open swimmer looked perished but said the swim gave him a 'high'! I don't like swimming at the best of times but that looked something else

There have been some wonderful One Shows this week, all very different in their randomness including Matt smelling the durian fruit and subsequent hilarious consequences He's such a joker!

Looking forward to 6.57pm tomorrow night when MrB appears again, in the meantime CCM to all lovely readers and posters. xx

PS Thank you Emma too for all your great pictures and comments, and it was lovely to have Matt's wardrobe choices all gathered together for us to thud over, it was a labour of love

Another good week for Countryfile in the ratings. It got 6.41m viewers (27% audience share) and was the 2nd most watched programme on the day (only beaten by Call the Midwife).

It was a good show too - I really love The Lake District and The Langdales are a particularly pretty area that looked amazing in that wintry light. Matt may have only had about 10 minutes airtime last night but they were well spent (even that was pretty good going as he would have lost over an hour of filming to travel between his locations - and he would have only had about 8 hours available filming time).

His poor little cold toes, lovely pics emma


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Matt was looking good the shirt was giving some very nice wow's
Good start to tos,
Those guys windsurfing in this weather are nuts.
They didn't seem to chat to chat to elaine much or perphaps i was watching matt to much

Evening all


Tos went quickly tonight,neil was a good guest. Bet matt got his mitts on one of the danish's

All wrapped and buttoned up in his cardie, still looks lovely

a lovely stubbly matt, lookng fab, great pics kk, thanks


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Evening all


Bonus standing at the start of tos , matt all wrapped up in a mixture of colours ,the stubble is coming along nicely.

A serious show talking about the floods, a bit a fun chatting to shane about reflex, matt would like to have a go on the show,
watched about 10 mins of it a few weeks ago, it's not great.

Morning! This was one of my favourite editions of the One Show as it featured the actors playing the 4 Musketeers, especially Santiago being a gorgeous looking man.

Matt looked terrific in all of your pics KK, thank you!

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Thanks for all the recent picspams KK...and don't worry about 'life getting in the way'...we are very grateful for all your hard work in getting these great photos to us

Hoping the readers and posters on here are Ok and not swamped by floods at the moment It's not been easy for many folk Fortunately I'm not in an area where flooding occurs but I feel so much for householders who are watching their precious homes and possessions 'go under' literally.

On a happier note, we still have one more OS tonight (although I'll have to record it) and then our weekend treat of CF where Matt visits a pig farm. Oink oink Wellies and a thick coat and a bobble hat will no doubt be worn.

Off to do some more chores, stay safe everyone. xx

Evening all


A good show with timothy, matt looked good in his jacket maybe a new shirt. Don't remember seeing it before
Got his flat cap out for the piggy racing outside , funny that all the pigs made a bee line for matt and his bucket of treats

Hope the guy manages to keep the flood water out of his house, scary being in the middle of all that flood water
It's terrible for those who have had flooding it's going to take months and months to put right.
Luckily we live up a hill and not in a flooding area, so we are safe from all the water

Morning all.

There were great ratings for the Wednesday hour long One Show - it got 4.93m viewers (21.5% audience share). It's likely that when the official rating comes out for that show it will be over 5m viewers. This was up a million viewers on the week before and shows how well the programme can pick up viewers when it does something topical.

It benefited last night's show too as some people stuck around so that managed 4.72m viewers and a 23% audience share

And I'm hoping to be able to do some picspams this weekend

Hi all
Just recovered from flu…still having cough which is bad and tiring, the good thing is having a bit time to watch back a few of Matt’s old BP clips and I spotted something I didn’t manage before, that is Matt’s abilities on ice and snow. When I watched Best of 2012 OS on Ice last year, I did wonder how well he can skate. I know he can as I saw him gliding well on ice in that BP bloopers clip but my question was at which level. Now I found some clues.
Here is a mini clip I put his winter sports adventures together.
http://youtu.be/ArwVKy1Vt68

Other than showboarding and ice skating, Matt was cartwheeling, not in Cuban heels on the dancefloor but in his skate boots in the ice rink. Somebody at the backstage was passing him an umbrella after the cartwheel bit which gave me the impression that he was going to use it as a prob. And he was performing a group number on ice in front of the live audience in an arena (no idea where it was). Finally, ice hockey round – how can anyone play ice hockey if they cannot glide through and well controlled on ice well, won’t they. My eyesight is poor but that’s not an optical illusions. Correct me if I am wrong though. So I draw a conclusion that Matt does well on ice and snow far better than I originally thought. No wonder he wasn't get invited on DOI. He won't do either to up against CF anyway but I think he and Beth (and Louis) can do some opening sequences on ice before the Euro Championships in April.

On other notes, as it is 14 February so I uploaded a clip of Matt returns to the OS after winning strictly live tour 2011.
http://youtu.be/VuAsdUcaBpw

The quality isn’t good as it is on the VHS that I recorded on my small analogue TV/VHS recorder. I was lodging when it was aired so didn’t have facilities there. I couldn’t capture it on the device to digitise it at the moment either cos it doesn’t have an output source.

Anyway, this is for anyone like to look back the day Matt returned to the OS from strictly live tour 2011. Let me tell ya, poor boy looking v tired. Weekly countryfile filming and performing 8 shows a week made him ran down but what a marvellous achievement at the end and we had 18-25 mins of Matt on CF episodes during that period! Happy memories!

No Matt on OS tonight, not sure he’s filming CF today but I hope he and Nicola have a proper lovely time together. Btw, they married in 2004 so they are going to make their 10th wedding anniversary landmark in (June?) which coincides with their black lab Annie’s birthday. She’ll be 2 this year (I think).


Wonderful, isn’t it.

OS is a topical show so it is appropriate that they did the flood special. It’s a bit of CF-OS cross-functional program, isn’t it. Some of OS viewers were offering helps they can and showed what yf have done to help farmers effected by the flood so all worked well together. Last night piggy racing was a good fun. Not surprised all piggies went to Matt but when Alex mentioned about it I couldn’t help myself but to LOL.

Hi Emma. Good to see you here - sorry about the flu, hope you feel better soon. Matt was filming Countryfile yesterday in Kent along with Ellie. Sounds like they had bad weather so he will probably be very wrapped up

Hello
There are some nice pics from CF Worcestershire (the Malvern Pudding segment)
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Matt in the sea-cadet hat (with Alex and sea-cadets), I haven't seen it before.
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Delighted to see Matt is on the cover of GYMNAST E-Zine February 2014 issue. I just found it on the British Gymnastics website . Great cover story inside. Thanks to the website, I can d/l the pdf file. Super!


Thanks KK. I am recovering…Bad cough doesn’t go anywhere yet though. Countryfile calls, I see. Hope he had a lovely dinner with Nicola when he's back from filming. He would have wrapped up himself warm as we predicted. and not got soaking wet.

Evening all

Hope everyones ok it's was blowing a gale here last night very strong winds, luckily the only things blown over were the wheelie bins



Great selection of pics of his many clothes he does have a huge range in his wardrobe

Thanks emma for the u tube clips, looks like he can snow board quite well, hope you can shift the cough soon

It’s a Countryfile picspam - the only new show Matt appeared in during January. The Winter Special aired on the 19th of January and was about how the countryside copes during the season with weather and farming reports. Matt reported on farming and the crops that grow during the winter months - including an inventive musical use for a carrot. He also narrated the story of a man who has spent years hiking & camping in all weathers (Matt is very good at voiceover - still think he should get more documentary roles )

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Straight on to The One Show on the 20th of January with guest Frank Skinner

Matt was wearing a pink shirt and jeans. He was sadly clean shaven

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Hi all
Clips of Matt presenting the Nature of Britain in 2007, I meant to post them long, long ago but too busy to complete editing. Now they are on. Apart from looking very young, his presenting and interviewing styles and expressions were the same we see him now-a-day. The quality wasn't v good but he looked lovely in close-ups sample pics:
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Matt also co-presented Countryfile: The Summer Diaries in 2007. There is no trace of clips/videos in the archive unfortunately, but the episode guides on the website gave us some clues. I don’t know who was his co-presenter though some names look so familiar.

20 Aug 2007 Bovey Castle
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa take a trip to Bovey Castle in the middle of Dartmoor, while Prunella Scales revisits the Devon village to which she was evacuated during the Second World War. Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines introduces his cookery strand, comic Sue Perkins takes a look at the charming eccentricities of Devon and gardening expert Christine Walkden pays a visit to a private cottage-style garden.

21 Aug 2007 Burgh Island
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa take a trip to the tiny Burgh Island off the coast from Bigbury-on-Sea. Elsewhere in the county, Myleene Klass tries out a Devon mini-break for astronomy enthusiasts and comic Sue Perkins visits the coastal locations that inspired Agatha Christie. Also featuring recipes with Michael Caines, gardening tips from Christine Walkden and an update from the busy veterinary practice on Dartmoor.
On CF website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0144xcr

22 Aug 2007 Tamar Valley
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa are in the Tamar Valley on the Cornish border, where actor Geoffrey Palmer demonstrates the joys of angling and chef Michael Caines shares his recipes for freshwater fish. There's also a sheep dog demonstration, another visit to a garden by Christine Walkden and a report from Sue Perkins on her exhaustive and physically gruelling quest to find the best cream tea in Devon!

23 Aug 2007 Ashburton
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Devonian TV presenter Tim Wonnacott challenges Matt and Melissa to find an authentic Devon momento or souvenir while visiting the antique heartland of Ashburton, a Dartmoor market town. There's also gardening with Christine Walkden, cookery with Michael Caines and a chance to hear the latest from the Dartmoor vets.

24 Aug 2007 The Tors
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa visit the stunning moorland of Dartmoor, where folk music sensation Seth Lakeman performs on his favourite bit of the moor and TV presenter Melinda Messenger takes her family on a moorland hike. There's also gardening with Christine Walkden, an update from the Dartmoor vets and some Sunday lunch suggestions from chef Michael Caines.

27 Aug 2007 Buckfastleigh
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. In an interview from her mother's garden, successful soul diva Joss Stone talks to Matt Baker about how her Devon childhood inspired her music. Sue Perkins experiences Berry Pomeroy Castle, reportedly the most haunted castle in Britain, and the team explore the scenic South Devon Railway.

28 Aug 2007 Start Bay
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa pull on their walking boots to try out the famous South West Coastal path, and have a go at a new alternative sport, Paddle Surfing, which is a cross between surfing and canoeing. Christine Walkden visits Blackpool Gardens, a world of plants in one secret South Devon garden.

29 Aug 2007 Salcombe
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa are in the property hot spot of Devon, where coastal retreats can fetch millions of pounds. Gardener Christine Walkden finds horticultural inspiration in the South Hams, Jenny Bond takes to the skies with the Devon Air Ambulance, chef Michael Caines presents a sophisticated three course menu and there's another instalment of the daily documentary from the Dartmoor Vets Practice.

30 Aug 2007 Chagford / Castle Drogo
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa visit the National Trust's Castle Drogo, Britain's newest castle. Gardener Christine Walkden discovers the castle garden's links to the arts and crafts movement, chef Michael Caines creates some tasty vegetarian dishes using local seasonal produce and Oz Clarke starts his wine trail recommending fine vintages from around Devon.

31 Aug 2007 Dartmoor / General
Countryfile spin-off series presented by Matt Baker and Melissa Porter. Matt and Melissa are set separate challenges, with Melissa being hoisted into the treetops of an outdoor activity centre while Matt competes with farmer Adam Henson in a sheep-shearing challenge. Chef Michael Caines hosts the perfect Devon barbecue, Lotte Duncan and Oz Clarke reach the end of their wine trail around Devon and there's a final visit to the Dartmoor Vets Practice, where we catch up with some former patients.

Well, interesting competition between Matt and Adam went on there. You see, Matt wasn't a new face to Countryfile team when he joined them in March 2009. Am I not right?

Evening all


A good cf , matt on a farm with some lovely ginger piggy's, the piglets kept nibbling on his wellies and he got a bacon sarnie which he munched into quite happily

Poor Adam not having much luck with his cows.

Hi Emma. Thank you for those videos. I hadn't seen those shows before - I'll share the links on twitter so more people can see them

We know Matt wasn't new to Countryfile - his presenting of the Summer Diaries and how they did in the ratings was a factor in the revamping of Countryfile into an evening show. I didn't see much of them myself but from the descriptions I think the content is closer to what we see on Countryfile now rather than how it used to be

Absolutely KK...the format of those 2 shows appeared to be quite similar to today's CF. Forgot to mention his voiceover. It's is lovely...and his pronunciation of 'nuclear power station' made me smile. V cute! His association with the One Show was the same as well. I have learnt that he appeared as a reporter on the first episode of the OS in 2006 so Matt is the original family member of the OS, isn't he? I think 2007 was the year we saw him as a commentator of the gymnastics and One Man and His Dog, as a presenter and a judge of Scruffs and Hearing Dogs.

Evening all


A lovely tos with warwick and jenny. Matt was really enjoying chatting with jenny about the snow boarding

Matt looked great tonight in his denim shirt shame that top button was firmly buttoned up

Thanks emma for the utube clips, haven't had chance to watch them yet with a cute young matt

Evening all


A lovely stubbly matt looking great in his pink jumper, good look with the sunglass on

David was a good guest, great story about how he got his cockatiel